7.5 tape command definition
This file is a natural candidate for site-dependent customisation and is therefore
located in the local directory.
This file is used to support tape reading in fotfile, which operates
reading template commands from this file, and using
tape command generation routines to write
the relevant edited
commands to a shell script. Example files are shown here for
- Unix using a
local tape drive and dd
- Unix
using a remote tape drive via rsh (this is a non functional example, and is
also not recommended w.r.t. remote login to the machine with a local tape)
- VMS
which requires a dedicated tapecopy (dd emulator) program which is not
part of XAS.
All examples are self-documented. In a nutshell one shall equate some standard
symbolic functions to a system-dependent command, using tokens in place of
variable parts like tape names, file names or numeric parameters. The symbolic
functions are :
- REWIND for tape rewind
- SKIP for forward skip file
- BINCOPY for copying and unblocking of a binary file
- ASCCOPY for copying and unblocking of an ASCII file
- MESSAGE to write a message to standard output
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